Tagged: forage
Managing risk to improve success with forage maize
February 28, 2021
A detailed focus on all aspects of plant agronomy, including nutrition, seedbed preparation and variety choice, will help improve the performance of maize crops in 2021. Decisions taken in the next few weeks will have a significant bearing on how… Read more
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Responsible Maize Recipe proves its worth in Dorset
January 18, 2021
A substantial acreage of early maturing maize is allowing J.F. Cobb & Sons to maintain a high level of soil heath and protection in the sensitive Poole Harbour catchment while making the most of the crop across a dairy business… Read more
Tagged # Avitus, best yield, dairy farm, Dorian Jones, Dorset, drymatter, early vigor, evnironmental benefits, forage, Holstein, JF Cobb, Krone, ksw, maize, ryegrass, sustainable farming, variety, wholecrop, yield
Latest wholecrop rye for AD trials show importance of matching variety to farm conditions
August 19, 2015
Wholecrop rye is confirming its particular potential as an anaerobic digestion (AD) feedstock in the latest production trials at Agrii’s Brotherton iFarm in North Yorkshire; especially so wherever forage maize production is impossible or unreliable. An average fresh weight yield… Read more
Tagged # AD, Agri-intelligence, Agrii, agronomist, feedstock, forage, Wholecrop rye